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Useful Quotes by Charles Babbage
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other…
- Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more…
- A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
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